So Rove is scaling back his duties to focus on the 2006 congressional elections while McClellan is leaving to spend more time lying to his family. They will be replaced with a sundry assortment of hacks and hanger-ons, in part because there's no way anybody possessed of integrity or ambition is going to jump on the USS Bush while it capsizes. But on a larger level, none of this matters: Scotty didn't invent lying, Rove isn't the president. All the calls for Rumsfeld's resignation strike me as similarly misguided: they're media generated pleas for the administration to undertake the sort of quasi-contrite actions that will allows for a narrative of renewal and restoration at 1600 Pennsylvania. That, of course, will come once George W. Bush and Dick Cheney pack up their belongings, roll up their rugs, and vacate the premises, and not a moment before.
